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Endogenous Women's Autonomy and the Use of Reproductive Health Services: Empirical Evidence from Tajikistan
Kamiya, Yusuke - Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), … - 2010
Though gender equity is widely considered to be a key to improving maternal health in developing countries, little empirical evidence has been presented to support this claim. This paper investigates whether or not and how female autonomy within the household affects women's use of reproductive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008763978
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The Lasting Impact of Mothers’ Fetal Malnutrition on Their Offspring: Evidence from the China Great Leap Forward Famine
Kim, Seonghoon; Deng, Quheng; Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Shi - Ohio State University, Department of Economics - 2010
We find that second-generation effects of in utero and early childhood malnutrition on the school participation of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642715
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The Lasting Impact of Mothers' Fetal Malnutrition on Their Offspring: Evidence from the China Great Leap Forward Famine
Kim, Seonghoon; Deng, Quheng; Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Shi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We find that second-generation effects of in utero and early childhood malnutrition on the school participation of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008680892
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The lasting impact of mothers' fetal malnutrition on their offspring: Evidence from the China great leap forward famine
Kim, Seonghoon; Deng, Quheng; Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Shi - 2010
We find that second-generation effects of in utero and early childhood malnutrition on the school participation of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274685
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Women and food security in South Asia: Current issues and emerging concerns
Ramachandran, Nira - 2006
malnutrition amid macro level food sufficiency is to be resolved. Food security, in its broader connotation, results from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284697
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The China Great Leap Forward Famine: The Lasting Impact of Mothers’ Fetal Malnutrition on Their Offspring
Fleisher, Belton M.; Kim, Seonghoon - Ohio State University, Department of Economics - 2010
due to a negative relationship between fetal malnutrition and their health and cognitive ability. Using data from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005052201
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Coping with food and nutrition insecurity in Zimbabwe : does household head gender matter?
Kairiza, Terrence; Kembo, George D. - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 7 (2019) 24, pp. 1-16
On the basis of a large-scale nationally representative sample of household data from five pooled cross-section surveys conducted by the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVAC), this study assesses the existence of gender differences in the vulnerability to food and nutrition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149148
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The lasting impact of mothers' fetal malnutrition on their offspring : evidence from the China great leap forward famine
Kim, Seonghoon; Deng, Quheng; Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Shi - 2010
We find that second-generation effects of in utero and early childhood malnutrition on the school participation of the … to IV estimation. -- malnutrition ; health ; schooling ; Barker hypothesis ; China Famine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009008844
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Malnutrition in Primary School-Age Children : A Case of Urban and Slum Areas of Bahawalpur, Pakistan
Khan, Rana Ejaz Ali; Azid, Toseef - 2015
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight the determinants of malnutrition of primary school-age (five to ten …. The composite index of anthropometric failure (CIAF) is constructed to use an indicator of malnutrition. Findings – The …’s nutritional status. Malnutrition is positively related with congestion in the household (number of household members per room …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014175076
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Food and agriculture systems foresight study : implications for gender, poverty, and nutrition
Lentz, Erin C. - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 1 (2021) 1, pp. 1-53
This review evaluates foresight studies to understand how the future agri-food system may impact gender, poverty, and nutrition (GPN). Foresight studies agree that it will be challenging to transform the agri-food system into one that is sustainable, healthy, and just, although the degree to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013326420